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Paleobiology Database

This web site hosts information about the entire fossil record, including information about fossil collections, individual plants and animals, taxonomic groups, references to publications, stratigraphic units, time scales, and time intervals. Data Location: paleobiodb.org Data Available: collection, occurrence, specimen records, taxonomic names/opinion, measurements of specimens Comments: Tools are available on...MORE

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Global Pollen Database

This web site hosts data from pollen grains which are accumulated in lakebed sediments and provide records of past vegetation. Data Location: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/gpd.html Datasets Available: Data is organized by collection location: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, North Atlantic Ocean, South America Comments: An additional search engine is provided [...MORE

Neogene Mammals of the Old World (NOW)

This website hosts data containing information about land mammal taxa and locality from the Eurasian Miocene to the Pleistocene. Data Location: http://www.helsinki.fi/science/now/ Data Available: species; location (age, stratigraphy, lithology, taphonomy, environmental interpretation); anatomy; inferred diet; locomotion Comments: Instructions for acquiring the data can be found [ HERE ]. Citation: Fortelius,...MORE

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Early and Middle Triassic Benthic Foraminifers

This data set describes taxonomic diversity and size distibution of benthic foraminifers from a carbonate platform in south China. Dataset Location: Dryad Site Location: Guizhou Province, China Sites Georefferenced: No Data Collected: genus, species, size, substage, age, environment Citation: Payne JL, Summers M, Rego BL, Altiner D, Wei J, Yu...MORE

Neotoma Paleoecological Database

This website and database hosts records of fossil pollen, charcoal, and mammal assemblages, as well as plant macrofossils, largely from North America, but also globally, throughout the Pleiocene-Quaternary (and Anthropocene). Also included are chronological controls that allow the use of the records through time from the last 5 million years...MORE

NatureServe

This web site hosts information about species and ecosystems of the Western Hemisphere, including several types of biodiversity data. Data Location: http://www.natureserve.org/getData/index.jsp Data Available: species, location, conservation status, commonness/rareness, spatial data Comments: This web site compiles data from a number of different programs, including: NatureServe Explorer; InfoNatura; Web Services for...MORE

Amphibians / Reptiles

Floral Reflectance Database

This web site hosts information regarding the color signature (color and reflectance) of flowers. Data Location: http://reflectance.co.uk/ Data Available: species, location, reflectance (wavelengths 300-700nm) Comments: A search is available by term [ HERE ] or by color in hexagon units [ HERE ]. Citation: Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V,...MORE

Baltimore Ecosystem Study

This web site hosts data from research in metropolitan Baltimore as a part of the Long Term Ecological Research Network. Data Location: https://baltimoreecosystemstudy.org/bes-data-catalog/ Site Location: Gwynns Falls watershed (76 o 30' N, 39 o 15' W) Baltimore, Maryland Datasets Available: THEMES - biodiversity, demographic/social, education, meteorology, modeling, patches, public health...MORE

Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve

This web site hosts data collected at the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve in central Minnesota as a part of the Long Term Ecological Research Network. Data Location: http://www.cedarcreek.umn.edu/research/data/ Site Location: central Minnesota (near the Twin Cities metropolitan area) Datasets Available: plant above ground biomass, root biomass, root carbon/nitrogen, small...MORE

Harvard Forest

This web site hosts data from the Harvard Forest as a part of the Long Term Ecological Research Network. Dataset Location: http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/data/archive.html Site Location: Petersham, Massachusetts Datasets Available: THEMES - biodiversity studies; conservation and management; ecological informatics and modeling; forest-atmosphere exchange; historical and retrospective studies; international research projects; invasive plants,...MORE